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AAA-CPAThe AAA-CPA is pleased to announce that NIW Companies will be presenting a webinar May 9 at 2 p.m. EST. Grace Barnard, co-founder and CEO, will be discussing how current benefit packages are not enough to retain key executives today. Highly compensated professionals above age 40 and earning over $250,000 a year will need to save 34 percent of their income to maintain their current lifestyle into retirement. In this webinar, Barnard will discuss how current benefits do not address this issue and offer a possible solution to the problem. Click here for more information and to register for this program.

Bloomberg BNAIRS international examiners and economists will soon have an additional tool to help them select cases for audit, as U.S. multinationals later this year will begin to file a detailed reporting form with their tax returns. Final IRS regulations issued in June 2016 require companies with annual revenue of at least $850 million to report information including the amount of revenue, profit or loss, capital and accumulated earnings for each country of operation.
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CNSNews.com The United States has the highest top statutory corporate tax rate — 39.1 percent — of any nation in the G20, according to a study released by the Congressional Budget Office.
That rate is nearly twice as high as the 20-percent rate in Russia, which, along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, has the lowest statutory corporate tax rate in the G20.READ MORE

Accounting TodayThe Financial Accounting Standards Board has proposed a new accounting standards update for simplifying the financial reporting for nonemployee share-based payments. The proposed update would expand the scope of the current standard on stock compensation, which now covers only payments to employees, so it also includes payments for goods and services to nonemployees.
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Tax-NewsLegislation has been reintroduced into Congress to simplify state income tax requirements for employees who work multiple days per year outside the state of their residence.
The Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017, introduced simultaneously in the House of Representatives and the Senate March 7, provides a uniform framework for when states may tax nonresident employees who travel to the taxing state to perform work.
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AccountingWEB The tax reform proposals floated by the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress would cut tax rates for individual taxpayers and simplify the tax code. But businesses aren't being left out of the mix. Other reforms would be aimed at business entities of all shapes and sizes.
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BloombergAre millions of Americans just forgetting to file their taxes this year?
More than halfway through the 2017 filing season, the IRS reported receiving 5.7 million fewer individual returns than at a comparable point last year. That's an 8.5 percent drop.READ MORE